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Push-ups

Have you seen this video of a girl who practiced push-ups for 100 days? She was self-conscious about her body and told she was "scrawny," but her transformation is so inspiring. I actually found myself doing push-ups in the boys' room at 6am this morning:)

I did a push-up challenge where I tried to do increase my reps per set every day, starting at five and working my way up to 20 in a set, but i didn't like the pectoral definition. My pecs would start and stop and then my boobs would start and stop and it looked funny. But I did like feeling strong, and this girl looks amazing.

Ha! I love the Enya! ... I did something similar but with pull-ups! A few years ago when I started rock climbing I could barely do half a pull-up, and I was shocked to find that within 2 weeks, by simply *trying*, I could do a full one. Cut to a few months later I was cranking them out at the playground with a toddler on my back! All you gotta do is try! Our bodies are amazing :)

I've been going to kickboxing for almost 2 years, and we regularly do pushups in the class and I STILL can't do full pushups from my feet and not my knees... i'm such a weakling!! maybe I just need to suck it up and do it like this girl for 100 days so I can start doing them like a MAN :P

I wanted to fill stronger, so I started doing pushup most days about a month ago. I started out doing two sets of 10 push-ups with only knee push ups. I'm up to two sets of 15 with 6 full pushups in each set. It's the best feeling in the world to feel stronger and see the muscles appearing!

I love how proud she is of herself and what a great inspiration to other young girls to be strong, and not just pretty.

She's smart - if you just do pushups, you'll plateau and never move beyond after a point. She keeps adding in tricks, changing positions so she keeps increasing her strength along with the complexity of the move.

She's not only doing push-ups but tricep push ups (which are even harder!). Which is also great balancing out the muscles in your arms. I love that woman are redefining strength. I think there has always been a stigma with woman strength training and I love that its slowly being broken. Push-ups are a great start for strengthening but don't be afraid of the dumbbells and my favorite kettle bells!

I love this! It's funny -- even though we all rationally *know* that doing push-ups builds upper body strength, it can sometimes feel like "getting stronger" is something that only happens for other people. I remember when I started strength training in earnest in preparation for a very physical job, and worked up to 25 push-ups in a row after never having been able to do even one. It was sort of mind boggling! And I remember seeing two of my male colleagues challenge each other to a push-up contest, and they managed something like 15 and 20, respectively, and I was sitting there secretly thinking, "I can do 25! I can do 25! And these guys are like TANKS!"

I love this! I grew up as an expat kid in Egypt playing soccer and our coach had all the girls on my team doing several reps of regular push ups. I only learnt about the "girl push-up" in grade 11 when I moved to Toronto and thought it was completely bizarre that girls in North America are taught to do this modified push up! The female body is strong and capable - my props to the girl in this video.